Nicolas Maduro and his wife will appear before a federal judge on Monday, a spokesman for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said Sunday, according to CBS News.
The spokesman told US television that Maduro and Cilia Flores are scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday at 12:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. in Romania)
It will be their first court appearance on criminal charges since they were forcibly removed from Venezuela during a US military operation in Caracas on Saturday.
Maduro and Flores arrived in New York on Saturday afternoon, hours after they were captured at their home in Caracas and taken aboard the USS Iwo Jima warship, then flown to New York to face criminal charges.
Maduro arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal facility in Brooklyn, at 8:52 p.m. (local time) on Saturday.
MDC is one of the few detention facilities in the US with capacity for high-security defendants.
The prison is known because other high-profile accused were held here, such as Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Luigi Mangione, Sean “Diddy” Combs or Ghislaine Maxwell.
Located in the borough of Brooklyn, it has been nicknamed “Hell on Earth”. It is one of the worst-performing jails in the city, along with Rikers, and has been the subject of complaints about understaffing, crime inside and harsh living conditions in cells.
In New York's only federal prison, about 1,200 inmates have been awaiting trial in federal courts since the Metropolitan Correctional Center in southern Manhattan closed.
